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The average worker works 34.8 hrs per week. Ergo, 50% of jobs work less than 34.8 hrs. I don't know how to grab the raw data to tell exactly how many are less than 40 hrs (assuming 40 average hours mean full time)
You all make it sound like $ 15/hr is a lot of money, lol!
With that being said, I agree that there is currently no shortage of crappy jobs.
I would be interested to see a breakdown of the available jobs
PT vs FT
and percent of FT at certain general rates of pay.
Say Min to $15
$15 to $25
$25 and up.
I have no idea.
I do know some areas certain real jobs are going begging but no concrete feel as to how many.
IIRC certain construction support manufacturing is looking to hire and they pay $20 plus mediocre benefits but yes a low end silver health plan is part of it.
I would still love to see actual numbers. REAL ones.
I would be interested to see a breakdown of the available jobs
PT vs FT
and percent of FT at certain general rates of pay.
Say Min to $15
$15 to $25
$25 and up.
I have no idea.
I do know some areas certain real jobs are going begging but no concrete feel as to how many.
IIRC certain construction support manufacturing is looking to hire and they pay $20 plus mediocre benefits but yes a low end silver health plan is part of it.
I would still love to see actual numbers. REAL ones.
You won't get them from anyone on TV including Fox which is experimenting with this "woke" c***
A 7-eleven near my home actually was 7 to 11 for a few weeks because of a lack of workers and the local deli had a sign. "We now close at 7PM because we cannot find employees."
This is in Long Island NY.
I work in retail management, and while my boss doesn't pay minimum wage he does start people below the trendy $15/hour. We recently went over the plan to increase pay as the state minimum wage goes up, and the boss didn't "find" any money. He's simply increasing prices in order to generate more revenue in order to offset the higher wages. That's where the money that you think these places "found" is actually coming from, along with staffing cuts and increased workload for some businesses.
I don't need a lecture, thanks. I was a business owner for more than 30 years, and managed another one for 27. I know where money comes from, and I also know how it is distributed. I have always been a firm believer that if your business cannot pay employees a living wage, you need a new business plan. Asking someone to live on starvation wages to support your desire to own a business is not much of a plan.
I keep hearing this being parroted but am seeing something different in reality. And it been happening even before the pandemic.
FCA opened a new plant in Detroit a few years ago. The directive way to hire Detroit residents first, over anyone else. They had two huge job fairs and couldn't fill all the positions, so had to open the jobs up to everyone else. These are good paying Union jobs.
A friend is offering $20 an hour to stock shelves at his liquor store. Can't find anyone.
Yeah, what I'm hearing, "if you pay them, they will come" and what I see in reality are two different things.
You don't say where that liquor store is located, so it's hard to say what $20/hr represents. Here in South Carolina that would be a handsome sum and a living wage. If it is in a major city, it may not be enough to afford housing near enough to the store to make it worthwhile. If there is a long commute involved, a lot of people are not going to be interested. Pay has to be a living wage for the location of the business.
I worked in retail management 20 years ago. It was the most miserable experience ever. Your life is the companies, meanwhile most of the people who work for you couldn't care if the place burns down.
A friend of mine who still works in the field had 2 employees call out on a Saturday, and they told him straight up "we are going to the beach". They just don't care because they know he can't get anyone else to work there and he is hamstrung with how much he can pay by corporate. Horrible.
I think I found the problem. If they are trying to make Wall Street happy, they will never have enough money to make anyone happy internally or externally.
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